While many species are now threatened with extinction, the European bison is beginning to recover Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Science is taking a major step forward by exploring the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life. Iconic animals like the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger could ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove 22 animals and a plant from the endangered species list because of extinction. They join the list of 650 U.S. species that have ...

At least 411 fungi face extinction among the 1,300 varieties whose conservation status is well understood, according to the ...

Nearly a third of fungi species assessed by international conservation experts were found to be at risk of extinction from ...

HONOLULU— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove eight birds and a plant in Hawai‘i from the endangered species list because of extinction. They join the list of 650 U.S. species ...